East Village Books is a used bookstore in Manhattan, New York City. We sell and BUY books, including art and photography books, textbooks (buyback), philosophy, mathematics, religion, occult, esoterica, new age, counter-culture, critical theory, music, literary fiction, Greek and Latin–actually any scholarly subject, review copies, underground comics/graphic novels. Estate libraries are our specialty. We also buy CD’s and DVD’s, except for pop music or mainstream movies.

Sell to us first for the highest prices. We buy used books at our store whenever we are open. During store hours call (212) 477-8647 or (212) 477-8648. To contact a buyer before we open click here. Our email address is eastvillagebooksny@aol.com. See instructions for selling us books and textbooks/CD’s/DVD’s via our email.

Cash paid, of course, and you may bring books to our store (we will help you in and direct you to parking if needed). If the quantity is large we will come to you.Thank you for calling us first.

You can find the best things in used books. To see an actual copy of a previously unseen document (in French or in translation) written by Henri Cartier Bresson, click on the photo below. This was found in a book by Bresson previously owned by a producer at NBC.

The cremation of GANDHI on the banks of the Sumna River, Delhi, India, 1948. Photo by Henri Cartier Bresson.